http://www.boston.com/sports/baseball/redsox/extras/extra_bases/2008/11/dustin_pedroia_1.html .....and his coaches told him he was too little to play in the bigs

If I didn't know any better, I'd say this was a baseball thread. But AAmos wouldn't do that, would she? They apparently interviewed the guy who left Pedy off his ballot (He's from Dallas) on WEEI today. I didn't hear it in person, but he had some sort of cock and bull story about how he thought Dustin wasn't a clutch hitter and wasn't very high in OPS and a few other obscure categories Definitely a WTF moment. to top it off, they scared up a column he did middle of Sept, with his guesses for MVP and Pedy was #4. So he managed to drop him from top 5 to off the ballot in about 2 weeks, during which he went something like 10 for 20. Needless to say, the hosts did not think much of this guy's logic.

And do you remember that in his first month or so as a rookie, he was struggling at the plate and there where cries to replace him at second and Terry said no way...and the rest is history! Fran